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Fair Use Prevails Over Michael Savage's Copyright Claims Monday, July 28, 2008 :On Friday, a U.S. District Court granted the motion for judgment on the pleadings we and our co-counsel Tom Burke of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP filed in a copyright infringement suit brought by talk show host Michael Savage against the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Savage had sued CAIR back in December 2007, alleging that CAIR infringed the copyright in his show when it posted on its web site brief excerpts from Savage's radio program in order to criticize Savag...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2008 7:19am PDT
Obama Holds Brief Q&A Before Thousands of Journalists of Color at UNITY Convention Monday, July 28, 2008 :Senator Barack Obama addressed a crowd of thousands of journalists of color at the UNITY convention in Chicago Sunday. We play highlights of the Q&A session, including Obama responding to questions about affirmative action, African American reparations and whether, if elected, his administration would consider issuing an apology to Native Americans. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2008 7:18am PDT
Race, Politics and the Media: A Roundtable Discussion from the UNITY Conference Friday, July 25, 2008 :In Chicago, nearly 10,000 journalists of color are gathered for a convention that brings together members of the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association and the Native American Journalists Association. It's organized by UNITY, Journalists of Color, Inc. We host a discussion with Democracy Now! co-host and former president of NAHJ, Juan Gonzalez, and journalists Roberto Lovato...
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 8:04am PDT
Key Internet Censorship Law Struck Down Yet Again Thursday, July 24, 2008 : The ACLU, EFF, and a coalition of plaintiffs achieved yet another victory for online free speech this week when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed [decision, PDF] a district court's decision [decision, PDF] granting a permanent injunction against enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (COPA), a federal law that would violate the First Amendment by imposing civil and criminal penalties on commercial website operators that publish ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:37am PDT
Here We Go Again: Yahoo! Music Throws Away the DRM Keys Thursday, July 24, 2008 : Just over a month after consumer backlash caused MSN Music to rescind its decision to deactivate the digital rights management ("DRM") servers that allowed MSN Music purchasers to "reauthorize" music files after upgrading operating systems or buying new computers, Yahoo! Music has decided to deactivate its own DRM servers....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:35am PDT
Privatization of Mexican Oil Will Advance SPP Objectives There is a swell of national sentiment spreading across the country as the majority of Mexicans wish to retain control of one of their last symbols of sovereignty....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 12:45pm PDT
Defend Elena Varela-Chilean Videographer of Eye Film Production-Demand Return of Tapes Activist Chilean videographer of the Eye Film Production Company was arrested and her video was seized by the Chilean police for covering the struggle of the New Machuche....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 10:48am PDT
Former Arlington National Cemetery Public Affairs Director Says She Was Fired for Refusing to Limit Press at Funerals Wednesday, July 23, 2008 :The secretary of the Army has ordered an internal review to examine the Army's firing last month of the former public affairs director of Arlington National Cemetery. Gina Gray assumed the role of public affairs director of Arlington in April. She quickly discovered that cemetery officials were attempting to impose new limits on media coverage of funerals of the US soldiers killed in Iraq -- even after the families of the dead soldiers had agreed to let the press att...
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 6:47pm PDT
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on Zimbabwe: A case of unclean hands Monday, July 21, 2008 :The foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times, Thomas Friedman, published an op-ed piece on July 16 entitled So Popular and So Spineless. The column was devoted to denouncing the Russian-Chinese veto, delivered on July 12, of a US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe....
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 7:19am PDT
borderlands hacklab closed until further notice Due to a lack of volunteers, the borderlands Hacklab at the City Heights Free Skool will be closing until further notice. It is likely that we will reopen in late august, after some hacklab volunteers have returned from traveling, but right now the project is not sustainable....
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 2:21pm PDT
More ISPs Decide to Filter Usenet Newsgroups Friday, July 18, 2008 :New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recently succeeding in pressuring AOL and AT&T to join the ranks of Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable in limiting access to many or all of the Usenet newsgroups hosted on their servers. This tactic will hinder free speech and the access to information in Usenet communities, without deterring the child pornographer. But since the ISPs are “voluntarily” bowing to political pressure, rather than obeying a statutory edict, traditi...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 4:19pm PDT
Cambodia: Murder of Journalist Jolts Run-Up to Election (New York, July 16, 2008) With less than two weeks before Cambodias National Assembly elections on July 27, the political climate has sharply deteriorated, highlighted by the killing of opposition journalist Khim Sambo and his son in a drive-by shooting on July 11 in Phnom Penh, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 2:18am PDT
Embedded Photojournalist Accuses US Military of Censorship After Being Barred for Publishing Photo of Dead Marine Monday, July 14, 2008 :An American photojournalist who was embedded with the Marines in Fallujah has been barred from the Marine Corps because of graphic photographs showing Marines killed in a suicide bombing last month. A few hours after he posted some photos of the bombing on his blog, a high-ranking public affairs official ordered him to remove it. When he refused, he was told his "embed" had been terminated and he would be flown out of Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 7:49am PDT
Indymedia Access for the DNC in Denver Coming to Denver for the DNC but need a workspace for your video and audio? Denver Open Media and KGNU studios are opening their doors as a workspace for indymedia journalists. There will be opportunities for live broadcast from the studio, audio streams and radio interviews. This will be a great workstation for all indymedia journalists....
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Mexican federal agents attempt to dismantle Radio Ñomndaa translation of original spanish comunique, which follows...
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 9:36pm PDT
Senate Begins Final Debate on Retroactive Immunity Wednesday, July 9, 2008 : The final Senate debate on the dangerously flawed FISA Amendments Act began this morning. Senator Feingold spoke at length in favor of Senator Dodd's amendment to strip retroactive immunity from the bill:...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2008 7:19am PDT
Viacom Violating You Tube User Rights A short article about Viacom's intrusion into You Tube user accounts....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 9:54am PDT
AT&T Whistleblower Urges Against Immunity for Telecoms in Bush Spy Program Monday, July 7, 2008 :The Senate is expected to vote on a controversial measure to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act tomorrow. The legislation would rewrite the nation’s surveillance laws and authorize the National Security Agency's secret program of warrantless wiretapping. We speak with Mark Klein, a technician with AT&T for over twenty-two years. In 2006 Klein leaked internal AT&T documents that revealed the company had set up a secret room in its San Francisco office to give...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2008 7:52pm PDT
Did U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes and ICE conspire in illegal activity? ICE officials admit they responded to the Congressman’s request and contacted Mexican authorities to coordinate efforts to recover Ms. Posselt. It was learned that ICE officials than met with Mexican authorities in El Paso Texas to workout out a strategy.
Washington, D.C. ICE higher ups then offered their technical assistance....
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2008 11:14am PDT
borderlands hacklab at the Free Skool needs volunteers to stay open for summer 2008! It's summer! Hooray! And that means that it's hot in San Diego, and that lots of people are traveling to various protests like the G8 in japan and the upcoming RNC/DNC protests. Also, people are moving in and out of the Free Skool, so thinkgs are a bit in flux....
Posted: Sun, Jul 6, 2008 3:03pm PDT
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